{"id":3234,"date":"2020-03-21T23:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/bienvenido-a\/alternativas-migratorias\/visas-y-alternativas-migratorias\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:55:33","slug":"visas-y-alternativas-migratorias","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/bienvenido-a\/alternativas-migratorias\/visas-y-alternativas-migratorias\/","title":{"rendered":"Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember that if you had to flee your country due to violence or threats, you can apply for refugee status in Ecuador; this is the <strong>only process that protects you from being returned to your country<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By contrast, visas granted by the Ecuadorian State are permits to stay in the country, but they <strong>do not protect you from being returned<\/strong>, as refugee status does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ecuador has several types of visas for foreign nationals who wish to regularize their status in the country. To learn about the visas available in Ecuador and which options may be best for your situation, seek <strong>free legal advice<\/strong> from the Public Defender\u2019s Office (Defensor\u00eda P\u00fablica).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below you will find general information about some visas available in Ecuador:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that if you had to flee your country due to violence or threats, you can apply for refugee status in Ecuador; this is the only process that protects you from being returned to your country. By contrast, visas granted by the Ecuadorian State are permits to stay in the country, but they do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":3232,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6036,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3234\/revisions\/6036"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/ecuador\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}